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William J.
Cook (William, Orlena) was born in January 1873
in Missouri, according to the 1900 census, which listed himself, along with
Mary J. Cook, his wife, and Charles W., Ella May, and John Henry, who were his
children UN14. His birthdate, according to his
tombstone, was January 1, 1873. The death certificate for his daughter, Ella May (Cook) Crites,
who died on March 25, 1944 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, indicated that
her father, William Cook, was born in Bollinger County, Missouri. He was a farm laborer whose parents were
born in Missouri, and his marriage occurred circa 1893 UN14. William Cook was very likely the son of William
Cook and Orlena M. Hannah. On
June 16, 1880, “Wm Cook”, age seven, was enumerated as the
stepson of Irvin T. Russel in Whitewater, Bollinger County; this William was
born in Missouri to parents who were also born in Missouri, and Irvin’s wife
was Orlena M. Russel UN13.
Two days later, “Wm
Cook”, age seven, was enumerated as a boarder in the household of James Hanna,
age fifty-five, and his wife, Amanda M., age fifty-four; they also resided in
Whitewater, Bollinger County, and again, William Cook’s birthplace was Missouri and his parents were also born in Missouri UN13. James Hanna was born in Kentucky to
parents whose birth occurred in Virginia, and Amanda M. Hanna was born in
Tennessee to parents who were born in Tennessee UN13. These were almost certainly his
maternal grandparents.
Although a representative from the Bollinger County Recorder’s
Office stated that no marriage record for William Cook and anyone with the
surname “Brotherton” was found in their records for the time period of 1889
through 1911, a Bollinger County marriage record book had an extremely faded
marriage record which appeared to state that William J. Cook of Sedgewickville
and Larceny J. Brotherton of Patton were married by P.A. Propst, Justice of the
Peace, on July 30, 1893 MI17. A
record which indicated that William J. Cook married Larceny J. Brotherton on
July 27, 1893 was probably an application for a marriage license or was a
marriage bond record BO22. Perry
A. Russell, age nineteen and born in April 1881 in Missouri, was listed as a
boarder in the Cook household in the 1900 US Census UN14.
A death record for William has not been located, but
according to his tombstone, he died in 1902. A
record for William Cook was not located amongst the probate records for
Bollinger County in 1902 or amongst the guardian records for Bollinger County
for the years 1901 through 1903.
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1900 US
Census: lived in Commerce, Scott County, Missouri.
Sena Mary J. Brotherton (Moses, Margaret) was born on August 5, 1873
in Patton, Missouri to “Mose”
Brotherton and Margaret “Satler”, according to her death certificate, which was
filed in Missouri in 1955. She had many names: Sena,
Mary J., Larcena, and Sean, and she was married at least four times. Mary
J. may have been her given
name, because as early as the 1880 census when she was seven, this was her name. Her death
certificate stated that her name was Sena Mary Lawrence.
Sena was the mother of Charles W. Cook, Ella May Cook,
John Henry Cook, Margaret Elizabeth Cook, Beula Maude Jaco, Moses Patton, Paul
Patton, and Ferd Patton. Charley
(Charles) William Cook was born on July 10, 1894 in
Sedgewickville, Missouri US14, US28,
which is the location his parents married and is eight miles east of Patton,
Missouri. His World War I draft registration card, dated June 5, 1917, stated
that he lived in Hollywood, Dunklin County, Missouri, which is about seven
miles south of Senath, Missouri, and he stated that his mother, four brothers,
and sister or sisters were dependent upon him for support US14. “Charley Wm Cook” and Pearl Zora Farmer, both of Arbyrd,
Dunklin County, Missouri, were married by Reverend C.J. Stanfield on September
4, 1919 at the residence of Della Farmer, Pearl’s mother, in Dunklin County MI17. At the time of the 1930 US Census, Charley William Cook and
his family resided in Oakfield, Wisconsin, which is the town in which Charley’s
sister and brother-in-law, Maggie Elizabeth and Basil
Welty, lived in 1931 and 1934. Charles Cook (forty-six) and his wife, Pearl
(forty-seven), were again enumerated in Oakfield Township, Fond du Lac County,
Wisconsin in 1940 with their children who ranged in age from nineteen to two:
Lester Vern, Anna Lee, William, Mary Elizabeth, Ella Mae, Charlotte, Robert,
Idella, Charles Edward, and Pearl Jean UN18. He
registered for the draft for World War II on April 27, 1942 US28, but according to his gravestone in Avoca Cemetery in Oakfield,
Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, he died in 1943 (the photo of his headstone can
be found on the Find a Grave
website). After his death, Pearl remarried to Henry Julius Warnke on October 5,
1946 CI4.
The
March 25, 1944 Cape Girardeau County, Missouri death certificate for Ella May Crites (filed on April 10,
1944), the wife of Ferd Crites, indicated that she was the daughter of William
Cook and Sean M. Brotherton, who were both of Bollinger County, and that she
was born on December 11, 1896 in Bollinger County. According to her death
certificate, her death was due to coronary thrombosis, and she was to be buried
at Post Oak Chapel on March 28, 1944. John
Henry was born in March 1900 but did not survive until the 1910 census UN14. Margaret Elizabeth Cook was born on May 16, 1901 in Missouri MR1, MI5, RI11.
Seana
or Leana Cook of Patton, Bollinger County married Thomas Jaco of
Sedgewickville, Bollinger County on August 30, 1903 at the residence of J.P.
Dalton in Bollinger County, Missouri BO25.
The index to the marriage records for Volume 6 stated that her name was “Seana
Cook”, but the actual marriage license stated “Leana Cook” BO25. This was probably her second marriage.
Beula M. “Propst” was born
about 1906 according to the 1910 US Census UN15, but there is much more evidence to support the
supposition that her maiden name was “Jaco”. Beula would have been
the daughter of Sena and Thomas Jaco, and if her birthdate of March 6, 1904 US26 is correct, it is likely that Sena was pregnant before she
married Thomas. Beulah Maude’s maiden name (Jaco) was
mentioned in an obituary for her son, James Fletcher, Jr. JA9 and on two death certificates for her children. She was called “Bulah
Maud Jaco” on the Dunklin County, Missouri death certificate for her
eighteen-day-old son, Arbry Fletcher, who died in Senath on November 29, 1932.
This death certificate stated that James F. Fletcher, the father, was born in
Bucoda, Missouri, and “Bulah Maud Jaco” was born in Bollinger County. The
physician’s scrawl appeared to state “attended the
mothr [sic] at the birth of this
child never saw aftrword [sic] I
suppose that death was caused by Influenzy [sic]”.
Another Dunklin County, Missouri death certificate for her daughter, Syble
Marie Fletcher, stated that Syble was born on April 16, 1934 and died at the
age of six months in Salem Township (probably in Senath) from malaria and colitis
on October 28, 1934. Again, her father was listed as James F. Fletcher of
Bucoda, Missouri and her mother as “Bulah Maud Jaco” of Bollinger County.
She
was probably the “Maudie J. Cole” of Senath, Dunklin County, Missouri (who was
younger than twenty-one) who married Jim Fletcher of Senath (who was over the
age of twenty-one) on September 3, 1925 in Kennett, Missouri DU14. If stated aloud, “Maudie J. Cole” would sound similar to
“Maudie Jaco”. Maude Fletcher of Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri was born on
March 6, 1904 and died in February 1985 US26.
Her obituary stated that Beulah Maude Fletcher of Willard, Missouri, the wife
of James Fletcher, died at age eighty at Green Haven Nursing home in
Springfield, Missouri on February 1, 1985 BE11. Unfortunately,
this obituary failed to mention her parents’ names. Her funeral was held at
McDaniel Funeral Home on February 4, and she was due to be buried at Senath
Cemetery BE11. Her surviving children were Matt Fletcher of Willard, Sime
Fletcher of Springfield, Ralph Fletcher of Rolla, Junior Fletcher of St. Louis,
Bob Fletcher of Dexter, Peggy Allen of Poplar Bluff, Patsy Cupp of Parma, and
Ella Mae Reeves of Malden BE11.
She was also survived by her brothers, Paul Patton of Kennett
and Ferd Patton of Indiana BE11.
Her son, Sime E. Fletcher, was born on December 11, 1937 and died on June 24,
2000; his gravestone is located at Resurrection Cemetery in Springfield, Greene
County, Missouri, and a photo may be viewed on the Find a Grave website. An obituary for another son, James Paul Bobby
Fletcher, stated that he was born to James Franklin Fletcher and Beulah Mae
Jaco on July 1, 1941 in Senath, Missouri, and died in Poplar Bluff, Missouri on
November 6, 2010 JA9. This obituary
stated that he was survived by his brothers, Matt and Ralph, and his sisters,
Peggy Allen and Patsy Cupp, and his siblings who had previously passed away
were his brothers Luther, Tommy, Eugene (probably Sime Eugene), and Arbey
Fletcher, and his sisters, Ella Mae Reeves and Sybil
Fletcher JA9.
The 1910 census
occurred a couple of months before Sena married her next (third?) husband (Harvey
Patton), and it listed her as a widow living with her father, but it also
stated that her last name was
Propst UN15. It is unclear why her surname was “Propst” at the time of the
1910 US Census, but that particular surname was common
in that area at that time. A Propst/Cook or Propst/Jaco marriage has not yet
been located. Sena Propst and
her children, Charlie, age fifteen, Ella, age twelve, Maggie, age eight, and Beula
M., age four, were at that time in the same household as Moses and Mary
Brotherton, their grandparents. At the time of the 1910 US Census, Sena Propst stated that she
was the mother of seven children, but only four were alive UN15. Not long after the 1910 census, Sena married Harvey Jackson Patton
on July 21, 1910 in Bollinger County, Missouri MI17, BO26. Their marriage
certificate, however, listed her name as Mrs. Larcena
J. Cook MI17, BO26. This wedding occurred at Larcena’s home in Patton, and was
officiated by W.B. Yount, Minister of the Gospel BO26. Sena had at least two children with Harvey
Patton, as the obituary for
her daughter, Maggie, stated that Maggie’s sister was named Mrs. Maude Fletcher and
her two brothers were named Paul Patton and
Fred Patton MR1; incidentally,
an obituary in a different newspaper reported that Maggie’s mother was named
Sean Lawrence RI11.
Moses Patton was
born about 1911 in Missouri UN17. Moses
Patton and Lora Marrillion Baxter, both of Kennett, Dunklin County, Missouri,
were married by J.F. Bolden on November 23, 1929 in Kennett, Missouri MI17. Lora Patton and her three children, ages nine, seven, and zero
months, were listed in the 1940 US Census on April 4, 1940 as lodgers in
Kennett, Dunklin County UN18.
Lora stated that she was married, but her husband was not in the same household
UN18. Because he chose to drive under
the influence of alcohol, Moses “Patten” caused the death of both Theodore (Ted)
Mick and himself in a car accident at 8:35pm on May 1, 1941 on the
Keeler-Hartford road, one half mile south of Hartford in Van Buren County,
Michigan KE15. After the bartender in a Hartford tavern refused to serve
him another drink, Moses began to drive home, but witnesses stated that he
“zigzagged along the highway at a high rate of speed” KE15. Driving toward Hartford was Dick Smith,
accompanied by passengers Ted Mick, Earl Beam, Jacqueline Blouin, and Levette
Bergward KE15. A ditch
along the road prevented Dick Smith from swerving off of the road, and the two
cars directly collided with each other KE15. Moses died of a broken neck, and because he was ensnared by
the wreckage, “his body was consumed” in the car fire KE15. Although Ted
Mick had a fractured skull, he extricated himself from Dick Smith’s demolished
car and attempted to free Moses Patton, but while doing so, he suffered burns
which caused his death on his twentieth birthday in Dr. E.J. Hall’s office in
Hartford KE15, FU3.
The survivors were hospitalized KE15. Smith and Beam sustained broken legs, Bergward a broken
wrist and possibly a broken pelvis, and Blouin was treated for “severe head
cuts” KE15. In the
newspaper article about the accident, Moses was described as a twenty-nine-year-old
farm worker who was transplanted from Kennett, Missouri in about 1938 (three
years before his death in 1941) who harvested fruit on the Birmalee farm in
Keeler Township KE15. His wife and “three small children” had just recently
joined him one month before his death KE15.
Paul Patton,
the son of Harvey J. Patton and Sean M. Brotherton, was born on October 17,
1915 in Marble Hill, Missouri US27.
Paul Patton and Gladys Grills, both of Senath, Dunklin County, Missouri, were
married on October 6, 1935 in Kennett, Missouri by J.A. Lane, Justice of the
Peace MI17, and Paul died on February 8, 1998 US27.
Ferd Patton
should have been born about 1918, according to his age (twelve) at the time of
the 1930 US Census UN17,
but he may have been the Ferd Patton whose death certificate indicated that he
was born on November 1, 1912 in Missouri and resided in Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Indiana at the time of his death on September 8, 1986 IN20. This Ferd Patton was a divorced carpenter who was found dead
on the floor from a fatal cardiac dysrhythmia IN20. Mishawaka is just east of South Bend, Indiana, the city in
which Ferd was said to have resided in 1955 MR9. An alternative birthdate for Ferd Patton of Mishawaka,
Indiana is one year later on November 1, 1913 US26. He
may have been the Ferd Patton who married Lois Patton in Kennett, Dunklin
County, Missouri on June 2, 1938; both Ferd and Lois stated that they were
older than twenty-one years MI17,
but according to the 1940 US Census record, Fird and Lois O. Patton were ages
26 and 18 respectively, which indicates that they were born about 1914 and 1922
UN18. In 1940, they lived with the family of Lois’ brother, Dossie
A. Patton in Neal Township, Mississippi County, Arkansas UN18, which is just south of the Arkansas-Missouri border and south
of Arbyrd, Missouri. Fird stated that he lived in Kennett, Dunklin County,
Missouri in 1935, and Lois stated that her residence in 1935 was in Leachville,
Arkansas UN18. Lois O. Patton may have been Lois Oma Patton Rosenthal
DeSchepper, who was born on September 19, 1921 in Leachville, Arkansas and
later married Jacob Rosenthal LO8. The
Ferd Patton who was born on November 1, 1913 and died on September 8, 1986
enlisted in the U.S. Army on December 4, 1942 and was released on September 30,
1943 US18. He may have been the father of
two toddlers who died in a fire on September 26, 1968 TW3. Ferd
Patton, Jr. and Hope Ann Patton, aged fifteen months and two years, were inside
a wooden dog house which had straw bedding, but when that straw caught fire,
they became trapped and perished TW3. Their mother, Corinne Patton, was also burned when she drew
her daughter from the flames TW3. The death certificates for Hope Ann Patton and Ferd Patton, Jr.
stated that their father was Ferd Patton, Sr., but their mother’s name was
missing IN20.
The 1930 census
recorded that “Sean” and Harvey lived with their nineteen-year-old son, Moses
Patton, who was the head of
the household,
and Moses Patton’s young wife, along with two of Moses’ brothers, Paul and
Ferd. Moses, Paul, and Ferd Patton were born about the years 1911, 1916, and
1918, respectively, according to their ages at the time of the 1930 census.
Harvey Jackson Patton’s Dunklin County, Missouri death certificate stated that
he died on February 22, 1933. He was twenty-four years older than Sena, and she
was listed on his death
certificate as “Sean Patton”. Interestingly, the surname of his doctor was
Brotherton.
As Sean M. Patten,
she was listed as a lodger in the household of Clide and Virgine Esibell on
Highway 84 in Independence Township, Dunklin County at the time of the 1940
census, which stated that she lived in the same place in 1935. She was
sixty-six years old, but she stated that she was married. Sean had completed
five years of schooling, and she worked as a housekeeper for twenty weeks of
the previous year. She worked forty hours during the week of March 24 through
March 30, 1940, and her income for the entire year of 1939 was just $60. Sena
was able to attend the wedding of her grandson, William Everett Welty, as a
newspaper article on December 8, 1944 mentioned, “Out of town guests included
the groom’s grandmother, Mrs. Harvey Patton of Kennett, Mo...” KE4. In 1950, she was enumerated in Kennett Township, Dunklin County,
Missouri as Sean Lawrence, age seventy-six and born in Missouri, the wife of
Henry Lawrence, who was sixty-two and was born in Arkansas UN19.
According to her
death certificate, Sena died at age eighty-one at 3:52pm on February 14, 1955
in Dunklin County, Missouri of coronary sclerosis due to generalized
atherosclerosis. She was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Kennett, Missouri. Her
death certificate indicated that she had resided at her home at 308 Chance
Street for thirty-seven years, although the person who wrote “37 yrs” in the
“length of stay” cell may have simply meant that Sena lived in Kennett or in
Dunklin County for this time, but not specifically at that street address. At
the time of her death, she was married to Henry Lawrence. This indicates that
she married her fourth husband, Henry, sometime after 1944. The informant’s
signature was Paul Patton of Kennett, who was her son with Harvey Jackson
Patton. Her obituary,
published in the Dunklin Democrat,
stated MR9:
Funeral services for Mrs. Sean Mary
Lawrence, better known as “Granny Patton,” were conducted yesterday afternoon
at the Assembly of God church with the Rev. J.L. Schaffer in charge. Burial was
in Oak Ridge cemetery under the direction of Lentz Funeral service.
Sean Mary Lawrence was born at Patton, Mo., to Mose and
Margaret Brotherton Aug. 5, 1873 and died at her home in Kennett Feb. 14, 1955,
at the age of 81 years, six months and nine days. Mrs. Lawrence was bedfast for four years before her death.
She was the mother of 10 children, seven preceded her in death. Surviving are her husband, Henry of Kennett; two sons, Paul Patton of
Kennett, Ferd Patton of South Bend, Ind.; one daughter, Mrs. Jim Fletcher of
Senath; two brothers, John Brotherton of Jackson and Harry Brotherton of Patton;
36 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren and a host of other relatives and
friends. Pallbearers were her grandsons, Barney Pelts, Bill Pelts, Glen Patton,
Gerald Patton, Tommy Fletcher and Junior Fletcher.
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1880 US
Census: lived in German Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
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1900 US
Census: lived in Commerce, Scott County, Missouri.
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1910 US
Census: lived in German Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
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1930 US
Census: lived in Independence Township, Dunklin County, Missouri.
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1940 US
Census: lived in Independence Township, Dunklin County, Missouri.
